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how to do this??? i would appreciate if you could answer the actual answer for the first one and explain how to do the process. thx.

how to do this??? i would appreciate if you could answer the actual answer for the-example-1
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For the first problem, a "fifth" means divided by 5, so "four-fifths of b" means
(b/5)*4 or
4b/5

Subtract means to take away, so "6 subtracted from" means to "take away 6" or -6

As such, the answer to the problem would be
4b/6

The rest the problems are also just translating English to math.
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